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D. S. LEE 8: P. G. STUOKEL. GRAIN ELEVATOR AND GONVEYER SPOUT.

No. 600,835. Patented Mar; 15,1898.

warms co. PHUTO-LIYHG ms men TATES DAVID S. LEE AND FRANK O. STUGKEL, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS TO THE HART IVEIGI-IER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

GRAIN ELEVATOR AND CQNVEYER SPOUL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,835, dated March 15, 1898. Application filed April 7, 189 '7. Serial No. 631,172. (No model.)

To 01, whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DAVID S. LEE and FRANK C. STUGKEL, citizens of the United States, residing at Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grain Elevator and Conveyor Spouts; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to a combined grain elevator and conveyer spout; and we have for our object to provide a construction to support the conveyer-spout as it isswung laterally and to maintain it in a desired position and to support it in a raised ora lowered position and maintain it at the point or angle desired.

We have illustrated our invention in the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification, and by reference to the same the invention may be fully understood.

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation showing an elevator and spout connected by a universal joint and showing our invention connected therewith. Fig. 2 is a detail view showing a means of pivoting the swinging support for the grain-spout.

In the drawings, A is an elevator adapted to be mounted on top of a threshing-machine.

B is a bar for supporting the same, which is detachably connected with the said elevator and is pivoted at its lower extremity to the plate 19, secured to the top of the machine.

0 is a grain-spout connected with elevator A or the hood portion thereof by a universal joint which adapts the spout to be swung in both lateral and vertical directions for the purpose of delivering grain at either side of the machine and into receptacles of varying height. I

D is a rod connected with the band E,which is fixed to the upper end of the spout extension 0, which is adapted to be moved up or down on the main spout O, the said rod being also carried in a perforation in the lug e, connected with spout C, and is adapted to be moved up or down in the perforation therein as the spout extension 0 is moved up and down on the main spout, and the said rod being enlarged at itsupper end to form a stop to prevent it from being disengaged from lug e.

F is a bar journaled in the bracket H and bearing in the open slot-s therein in a manner adapting it to be readily disengaged therefrom. The said bracket is pivoted upon the plate I, which is secured to the lower portion of bar B or a socket connected with the lower end of said bar, the said bracket being adapted to turn readily upon the supporting-plate.

f is a block pivotally connected with barF and is provided with a perforation adapting it to be carried upon the rod D and to be moved back and forth thereon. 6

d is a collar carried upon the said rod D and is provided with the set-screw, adapting it to be fixed upon said rod.

The operation of the supporting device is very simple and may be easily understood by an examination of the drawings. In Fig. 1 the parts as they are shown in solid lines illustrate the manner of supporting the spout in a lowered position and the dotted lines show the said spout supported at a higher point, and it may be fixed at any point of elevation that the construction is susceptible of maintaining the said spout by merely raising the spout to the point of elevation desired, the bar F and block f following such movement of the spout, the block sliding along the rod and catching it at the desired point of elevation, and it is maintained in such position by sliding the collar d up in contact with the block f and fixing it upon the rod, and when the spout is held at any point of adjustment vertically it may be turned from side to side at will, and it may be raised vertically from a given point of support when it is desired to adjust it laterally and is so raised to clear some obstruction, and is again lowered to the desired fixed point or angle. When it is desired that the elevator and spout shall be folded for transportation, the said elevator A, which is suitably pivoted to adapt it to be 5 I raised or lowered, is disengaged from the bar B and the bar F is disengaged from the bracket II, when the elevator and spout may be folded together.

Having thus fully described our invention, :00 what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a grain-elevator and a grain-conveyer spout connected therewith, adapted to swing in both vertical and lateral direction, of a supporting-bar for the conveyer-spout, the lower end thereof supported at a given point in such a manner as to permit it to swing laterally and vertically, a rod supported upon and lengthwise of the conveyor-spout, a block pivoted on the outer end of the supporting-bar, and adapted to slide back and forth on the rod, and means for supporting the block at any desired point on the rod, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination with a grain-elevator, the grain-conveyer spout C, pivotally connected therewith, the rod D, suitably supported in connection with the conveyer-spout, of

the bracket H, and bar F, suitably journaled therein adapted to be moved vertically, of the plate I, to which the bracket H, is pivoted permitting the bar F, to be moved laterally, the block f, pivoted upon the outer end of bar F, provided with aperforation adapted to engage rod D, and the collar d, carried upon the rod and provided with a set-screw adapting the collar to be fixed upon the rod, all substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses. DAVID S. LEE. FRANK O. STUCKEL. Witnesses:

S. B. HART, J. E. DE VRIEs. 

